Must be nice; I will be grateful if American democracy is returned to us.
If my wife and I were younger, and not attached to our kids, we’d be thinking about packing our stuff and heading to a place that isn’t criminally insane.
What we’re looking at here is as follows:
In places like Texas, intelligence, or even sanity, is not a key criterion to political success. Rather, it’s all about how strongly one hates the correct people: immigrants, woman who want exceptions to the total ban on abortion, Democrats, and those seeking justice in the coup attempt.
Twentieth Century Chinese inventor, linguist, novelist, and philosopher Lin Yutang provided us this scary thought.
Let’s add a dash of optimism and say, “…..the sun will be setting unless decent people commit to ensuring that it doesn’t.”
Let’s add some additional content here. Working with the Deep State, the Democrats are:
• Coming for your guns.
• Taking away your freedoms by forcing you to wear a mask.
• Teaching your children about racism.
• Rigging the elections in favor of socialists.
• Grooming your kids to be gay.
• Opening our borders.
• Defying Putin in Ukraine.
• Re-establishing decent public educational standards.
• Enabling private social media companies to enforce terms of use re: malicious lies.
• Using tax dollars to mitigate climate change.
The list is endless; please, feel free to add anything you like.
About the meme here, a reader notes: The libs are coming after Elon Musk with a vengeance!
I would say that anyone who supports Trump and is endeavoring to restore his voice to U.S. politics is a terrible human being, and that’s true regardless of what the “libs” are doing.
But now, throw in the fact that he has $200 billion. Imagine that you could end world hunger or homelessness or climate change, but you decide that your contribution is going to be making Donald Trump a permanent fixture in our lives. It doesn’t get any scummier than that.
When it was revealed that the UK’s Global Warming Policy Foundation is accepting donations from the fossil fuel industry, it was reported to authorities for its fraudulent behavior.
“It brings no public good,” say signatories, who wish to reclassify it as a “lobby group” rather than a “charity.”
There are plenty of scummy ways to make a living on this planet, a fact that’s becoming ever clearer as time passes. For my money, however, few are worse than professionally spreading lies that are frying this planet like a piece of chicken.
The anti-abortion folks have a ton of problems if they are to back up their beliefs with rational thought.
Here’s one of them.
As described here, the northwestern state of Idaho has become a magnet for white nationalists, gun nuts, and other members of the far-right.
The article poses the question “What’s it like to live in Idaho?” The answer is obvious. If this is the way you think, you’re enjoying the camaraderie of like-minded folks. If this isn’t the way you think, it’s probably pretty disturbing to be surrounded by hateful and ignorant people.
But that inspires another question, which I ask myself whenever I hear about how gay people are persecuted in a state like Tennessee: Why in hell is a gay person living there? Sell your stuff and move to someplace–anyplace–that isn’t a moral hellhole. It’s not like this country doesn’t have regions with decent, well-educated people. Just pick one.
Obviously, this would be a far better country if we were able to rid ourselves of all this bigotry and stupidity. But, as we look around, does that sound like something that’s actually becoming a reality? Until the United States begins to reach some level of enlightenment, it’s hard to blame people for moving out of places they’re not wanted.
Speaking for myself, I will most definitely not be finding out what it’s like to live in Idaho.
This from climate activist Greta Thunberg:
Re: the pic at left, here’s a conversation between me and two people I don’t know:
Kent Sullivan: You are an idiot, which is obvious by your unnecessary use of profanity and poor grammar.
Me: LOL!!! And quite loudly, too!! I was thinking the exact same thing!! I wonder where he stands politically.
